Spain brings back free healthcare for illegal migrants

reuters.com ^ | June 17, 2018 | Reuters Staff

[Berlin_Freeper]

Spain's new socialist government promised on Friday it would restore free healthcare for undocumented migrants, a right removed by the former administration as part of cost-cutting.

The move is the latest migrant-friendly initiative by the government of Pedro Sanchez, who offered on Monday to take in a rescue ship that was drifting in the Mediterranean sea with 629 migrants on board. Italy and Malta had refused to let it dock.

The government will draw up a draft law with the proposal, it said, which must be approved by parliament. Although the Socialists have a minority of 84 seats in the 350-member assembly, most parties back the proposal and it seemed certain to be approved.

[BunnySlippers]

We should send all our illegal aliens to Spain. And they speak the same language.

[zeugma]

Why don't we load our illegals on a boat and ship them to Spain? It's a win/win situation. They want illegals so much, they've opened their ports to them and give them free health-care.

At least our illegals more or less speak spanish, so they'd fit in.

[LadyDoc]

You need to check them for infectios disease to prevent epidemics.